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Friday, December 04, 2015

Bulking up the Bobcat

"Wait a minute. What have we here, gentlemen? The police have themselves an RV."

posted by Jar(egg)head at 10:01

2 Comments:

Blogger Davis14633 said...

The sad part is that since this thing appeared on the news last week, every department that has a SWAT team (needed or not) will want one. Now you could probably build one with some iron plating and a Bobcat for a few thousand, but why do that when you can spend 100K of the people's money for something that will only be used once or twice a year. Of course it will be brought out a lot because, once bought, the SWAT guys trying to justify SWAT and all of their toys will try to use it every chance they get.

The thing I have learned from working in government is that every little fiefdom created tries to justify its existence by inflating its importance. SWAT for example. SWAT guys seem to think every situation calls for SWAT, thus showing a "need" for a SWAT team. You really see this in the bloat of administration in just about every Primary and secondary school. Some meaningless job is created, so they make work for themselves to seem important, until they create enough work that they can't do it alone and another job must be made to handle the overload, thus another position is created, and the entropy begins. This is why you have the assistant to the Liaison to administration (real position BTW in our local school system).

07:31  
Blogger Jar(egg)head said...

I have no doubt that I could build that armored platform to attach to the front of a Bobcat for less than two thousand dollars and a few days in the shop -- and I'm a middling welder on my best day. But somebody will sell it to them for fifty thousand dollars of taxpayer money. Were I less honest a man, I'd do it myself.

22:39  

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